Iphones getting bigger screens and Macs getting smaller screens...I get the logic.
Yeah, goes along with merging Mac OS X and iOS into the same thing (in spite of their claims to the contrary, they keep heading in that direction).
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OS X Yosemite to Launch in Late October, 12-inch Retina MacBook and 4K Desktop in the Works
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Yeah, goes along with merging Mac OS X and iOS into the same thing (in spite of their claims to the contrary, they keep heading in that direction).
They just redesigned the iMac recently. Adding retina would mean they need to upgrade the internals a bit. I'm a bit skeptical of them doing a redesign or increasing resolution on the iMac just yet.
Eh.
Where is the mac maxi with mac pro design and 'normal' cpu and gpu?
That would be quite awesome, but it would kill the iMac.
Agreed... but also the 4K screens I've seen personally don't always look better than 1080p screens because the way they handle colors and have artifacts. I love the idea of 4K, I just think the tech has a bit of a ways to go.
If Apple puts the 21:9 panel from the LG 34UM95 (or better) into an updated TBD (and resolves the reported QC issues), I'd snap it up... Don't need 4K, just a better monitor for code-slinging...
Or you could think of it as the 11" gaining an inch... If they decrease the bezels, the 12" macbook could still be smaller than the 11" air, and a 14" macbook could replace a 13" air. Noone knows yet what will happen in this category.
Apple will not release a traditional macbook air. It is going to be a device that is both a macbook air and an ipad. That will enable them to shrink the device and make it even thinner. The screen will come off the keyboard. Whether it switches to IOS or not I am not sure, but it will run Yosemite. Serious innovation in this category now requires a device that can turn into 2 separate devices. The only problem that I see with this is that now instead of 1 person buying 2 separate devices, an Ipad and a Macbook, they will only be buying 1 device. How will the make up this gap in profit I am not sure. Hopefully they will not astronomically raise the price to make up this difference, and I doubt they would.
How do you know this? It seems a strange direction to go with the overwhelming success of the Surface.
It would seem that a product like this would be worse than it's individual components, the worst of the Air, the worst of the MacBook.
I could see 4K displays before iMac's; the Mac Pro already [fully] supports it and that market would gladly pony up the cash (assuming 4K LED LCD's don't considerably raise iMac prices). Currently, selling non-Apple 4K display's may be chaffing Apple's buttocks. Least they'd be "testing" the panels before sending them out with updated GPU's in their iMac's.
I don't really see the need for the 12" MBP. There is a 13" model, so that 1" would make that big of a difference in size and portability. Not to mention that there is an 11" MBA model for those who are concerned with size.
What I would really like to see is the return of the true work laptop, the 17" MBP.
What I would really like to see is the return of the true work laptop, the 17" MBP.
How do you know this? It seems a strange direction to go with the overwhelming success of the Surface.
It would seem that a product like this would be worse than it's individual components, the worst of the Air, the worst of the MacBook.
Just because the Surface was the first to release such a device doesn't mean Apple won't also release such a device. We have seen this already.. Apple didn't make the first tablet either, that didn't stop them before.
The new Surface looks like a pretty high quality product, even though I would never buy one myself. This is for a multitude of reasons. First, I haven't held one (are they even out yet?) so I do not know about the build quality. Second, I have moved away from using Windows machines, malware and viruses aren't my thing. Third, the reason that product won't find much success is because it is astronomically overpriced. I think it cost, what, over 2 thousand dollars? No one is going to buy that for that type of money. You could buy 2 Macbook Airs, 4 Ipads, etc..
So, I think Apple is going to make such a device, create innovation in the keyboard so it acts and operates like a Macbook keyboard we are all accustomed too, but the device will also be able to operate like a tablet. I think Apple realizes that in order for the tablet market to have sustained success moving forward, they need to be able to incorporate actual productive uses of the device, and not just have it be used for streaming movies and the internet.. Thus, I have a feeling Apple has found a way to make a device in that form-factor, detachable, at a substantially lower price point than the Surface. Make the screen extremely attractive, detachable, and can run Yosemite and you have a winner IMO.
Well, yes and no. Because I was thinking just awhile back that I might consider getting a 13" rMBP to replace my current MBA when the times comes, because it only weighs a half pound more, comes with a better processor, the ability to add more memory, and a better GPU.
So a 12" MBA might split the baby between the utterly useless (IMO) 11" MBA, and the 13" MBA that currently gets kind of trumped by the 13" rMBP.
Dude, you totally stole the rumor I just made up. I mean, had confirmed by my sources at Apple. Totally confirmed.
I had someone (not an Apple guy) suggest to me that with the new Mac Pro, I could finally buy a Mac that would be decent for gaming. I pointed out that buying a Mac Pro for primarily gaming purposes would be like buying an M1 Abrams and an Apache helicopter and then training a whole team of Navy Seals to hold up a gas station in rural Kansas.
Overkill. It would be overkill, is what Im saying.
Not sure why your post reminded me of that. I guess every time somone makes an equivalency statement between Mac Pros and gaming machines that conversation comes to mind.
Presumably the same monitors youve been using till now?
I kid, I kid. I know what you meant.
So iOS 8 and iPhone 6 in September, Yosemite, retina MacBook Air, and probably new iPads in October, and then iWatch in November??? This can't be right. Can we expect Mac Minis and a new Apple TV too???
Until Apple releases a pixel doubled ACD, the Dell UP2414Q (3840x2160) is absolutely gorgeous. Once you have Retina on the desktop you just can't go back.
After using the Dell it's clear that Apple has to double the pixel count (quadruple actually) or it won't be worth it.
And BTW, the rumored 12" Retina MacBook is NOT supposed to be a MacBook Pro.
After using the Dell it's clear that Apple has to double the pixel count (quadruple actually) or it won't be worth it.
And BTW, the rumored 12" Retina MacBook is NOT supposed to be a MacBook Pro.
I hope you're right. It will save me making a choice about leaving the mac ecosystem completely since there will be 0 Apple products left that I'd ever consider buying.
Does it make sense to anyone else that this new 12" notebook will just be called "Macbook"? Also, what price are we expecting? The retina mbp is $100 more than non-retina, so would something like 1099 be reasonable? Also if Apple is positioning this new product as a major release could we see a price of maybe 999? Seems like it could be a game changer to me
I'm semi in the market for a new MacBook Pro with retina, but I'm going to wait until the product line clarifies, and I'm waiting for Broadwell.
Somebody from Apple needs to talk to Intel and get them to clean their act up.
Somebody from Apple needs to talk to Intel and get them to clean their act up.
This sounds like a terrible idea. If this is indeed what they are doing, what a gigantic departure from what they have done in the past.
Here's an idea for our next product everyone, you know, the one we have been hyping for over 3 years now, lets make a non-tech product containing health sensors and other non-breakthrough features, and then lets partner up with low level quality manufacturers and push the product in as many non-apple stores as possible. I find it hard to believe a company with a store layout so organized into small quadrants would immediately become so commercialized across so many different storefronts. Hopefully this wearable product doesn't turn into one giant mass produced mistake that degrades the Apple brand.
Before this would make any sense, the usability issues would have to be resolved.
Convertibles have been around for a long time on other OSs but have not yet taken off.
I guess the problem is, when in laptop mode you want software and designed for keyboard and pointer. When in tablet mode you want software designed for a touch interface.
For a seamless experience, you'd want the software you're running to seamlessly switch from one UX to the other... I guess when you plug in or unplug the keyboard (?) I guess Apple is just now putting the foundation for this in place with the iOS/OS X integration features they are adding in iOS 8 and Yosemite. But they would need to go much further. And, of course, all the app developers would as well.
I support there are also hardware tradeoffs, too, to make a single device that can switch from one mode to the other.
So a good convertible seems like a long way off. (And if they did anything less, I'd hardly call that innovative.)
Also, it's not clear to me that a single convertible device is really preferable to simply having two optimized devices, where iCould (or a different cloud technology) keeps all your stuff in synch. What's wrong with that? Why would a convertible be any better?